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Sounds good on paper, but in reality you still need to pay the insane licensing fees if you need a usable product. It's like Android, I can download the source code and run it as long as I don't need extra features like a dialer and I don't mind majority of the Android apps not running on it.

If you need a truly open source solution then that would be Gitea not GitLab.

What is so difficult in setting up and integrating GitHub with Jira for example, last time I did it, it was a few clicks?

GitHub also has mediocre issue management and a wiki and we have GitHub Actions as well.

You still need to integrate your cloud service provider with GitLab, which is exactly the same hassle as integrating it with GitHub.

KDE 4 looked like a cheap Vista knockoff gone wrong and the widgets were worse than useless, I stopped using KDE altogether because I felt the developers completely lost the plot.

One of the most arrogant moves was to not have files on the desktop, instead they put together a poorly made widget called folder view, I believe they completely U-turned on that one, not sure how many years it took them though.

To be fair, last night I tried putting a shortcut to a picture onto the home screen on my iPad that has better hardware than my MacBook Air and I couldn't figure out a way to do it and iOS has well-paid armies of people working on it.

> Why are you bringing sex/gender into this? It has nothing to do with it.

It's easier to victimise yourself than to accept the reality that irrespective of what class you belong to, there will be people who will not like you for what you do, say or how you say it and they will voice their opinions. While there are plenty of isms and ists in the world, everyone gets hate online.

Valid criticisms should be taken onboard, garbage hate should be discarded. If you don't have thick skin but still want to have an online presence: just disable comments or have moderators delete all comments you wouldn't like.

It might also be just me, but I fail to understand why anyone uses Twitter or anything similar, these types of platforms promote trashy conversations in my view.

The Cosmic Desktop Environment is built with Rust and that seems to work fine, so likely the issue is with flutter, which I don't really understand why chose that over Qt or GTK.

Apparently Microsoft writes their installer in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and that also works fine.

It is very embarrassing they Canonical somehow manages to screw up something as simple as an installer.

With a "little bit of help".

I was very confused when I saw that Hungarian is easy and Romanian is hard, then I read the legend.

What about the middle eastern countries? South America? That country that has the Patriot Act?

I'm looking forward to everyone uninstalling Nginx.

React Native is very unreliable and unproductive, you write your code in JavaScript, that then gets executed in a VM, that then calls some glue code that may or may not work reliably, when these don't work: good luck debugging it.

React itself became quite a mess as well nowadays, it's becoming bigger and more bloated with each release. You can now very easily re-create the AngularJS hell in React.

JavaScript doesn't scale in productivity and in terms of performance, TypeScript solves the productivity problem, but you still suffer a lot due to JavaScript's poor runtime performance characteristics.

I reckon most people complaining about RHEL: - never really needed to use an enterprise OS, they could have just used any other *nix. - don't understand that what Red Hat is doing is perfectly in line with not only Open Source but also Free Software

If you hate Red Hat or IBM, just don't use it and move on, use a community driven OS which is a lot easier and is probably a lot more flexible, you are not going to convince any enterprise to drop their RHEL subscriptions.

As many have pointed out: the support is RHEL, not the code, the code without Red Hat support and contracts is useless.

You should look up "buy to let" and take a look at UK rent prices, but if you happen to be in Eastern Europe let me know, I will show you around what owners do with their property.

Whenever I get on a call with an automated system, the first thing I do is figure out what do I need to tell it to dispatch me to a human in the shortest amount of time, sometimes I purposefully phrase it in a way that I know a machine cannot understand.

If I go though the trouble of making a call, then it's usually a complex problem that had no solution in the UI of the service that I am using, therefore it's highly unlikely that some automated system can solve it, if it could, there would probably be a button for it already.

Care to elaborate?

This happens with regular tenants and hotels as well, do you want them to also go out of business?

Issue is that a lot of the good sources solely use controlled platforms like YouTube where you can't even use words like "suicide", which normalises this nonsense, I understand that not everyone wants to watch a video about "rape", "suicide", weapons and murder, however what is happening today is ridiculous.

The other issue is that these big platforms are all American which means they will enforce American sensibilities like having it okay to show incredibly scantily clothed people where not much is left to the imagination, but going crazy if a nipple is shown.

Pointing out hypocrisy is not "whataboutism" it's just simply pointing out hypocrisy.

This "whataboutism" was invented as a way to avoid uncomfortable comparisons, you can find a lot of stories in the west where if you replace Countryname with Russia and the story would sound plausible, here you go: "Russian whistleblower who uncovered that the Russian government spied on all of its people has fled to the US to avoid being imprisoned in Russia", talking about Snowden of course.

Dystopian centralised internet at its worst.

Meanwhile on Apple News I can ready that according to the Independent: Ukraine has made yet another 'breakthrough'. How are these guys not in Moscow already with all these wins and breakthroughs? Russia should be dissolved by now because according to western media: Ukraine wins all the time.

I don't think having central entities moderate the world solves anything, they can more easily be coerced by a government or people with a lot of power, I would just let people believe what they want to believe.

The "old internet" was much better where you just followed whoever you wanted to believe.

> Yes you can on the android emulator. The biggest issue is compu arch in that case.

I can also download VirtualBox and run all Windows programs, that would mean that all Windows apps are Linux apps?

> Yes you can for the most part

You can't statically link glibc: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/3392

glibc can break stuff: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/08/valve-dev-understandab...

I had binaries break because the newer version if openssl was put under a slightly different name.

If we just counted the kernel, then it is possible that Minix could be the most popular "OS" because it's burnt into every Intel CPU, however it's probably not a helpful metric. If we equate Android with Linux, we can also say that MacOS is the most popular mobile operating system because iOS uses the same kernel as MacOS.

I consider 2 things to be the same OS if they can natively run the same unmodified binary files and if we look at it this way, Linux is on a losing streak: - I cannot download an app on Android and run it on Debian - I cannot compile a program on one version of the same distro and run it on another version of the same distro

The moment I will be able to compile a program that runs on both Arch and Android, we can start adding the stats up, however I doubt tis will happen anytime soon looking at the poor attempts at fixing this.

You don't manually update the container images, you ideally pull it from the vendor, who knows best what is needed to get it working, it's also less hassle even if you build the images, because the image only contains the components that are needed to run than application, it doesn't contain things that are needed for your other applications.

If you are able to run multiple applications on one host, you are likely doing the things that containers do for you.

If I have something so important that it has to run for over a decade that I cannot risk doing an OS upgrade, then I don't see why I shouldn't need to pay for that, assuming the fee is reasonable.

It is also very easy, to take Debian 12, install Docker or Podman on it and just put everything into containers, that way the only thing that you need to work after an upgrade is your container runtime and you are all set.

Most people complaining about systemd wouldn't even notice if their whole OS was just a single binary.

This attitude does not help the Linux stack, because the one thing software vendors do not have time for is to test against 10+ init systems[1].

I don't need both Wayland and X11, I just need one of these that is reliable.

I also don't need both Flatpak and Snap, I just need only one that does not have crippling bugs.

I also do not want to care about what version of glibc is on the target machine, I just want to compile a blob that anyone using any distro can run.

Choice is good, however not when it comes to the base system, the base system needs to be there and it needs to be reliable and people should build good stuff on top of that, init systems are not exciting things to build.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems

I guess this is the end of Data Protection now that data can freely flow to the country of the Patriot Act and government agencies that aren't the most trustworthy.

The EU should just drop all Data Protection laws to make it fair, otherwise all they are doing is increasing the advantage of those agencies that play fast and loose with people's data.

I used Ubuntu Desktop in the past, I think they had the right idea with Unity, however it felt like they didn't push hard enough.

I was using Ubuntu Server everywhere, I stopped using it the moment they started forcing snaps. Snaps are inferior technology, I don't want to install a daemon just to install software on my server, I don't want an unpredictable auto upgrade technology and I don't want millions of mount points.

DEB and RPM have been around since forever, I can deploy software using those technologies and expect it to work in 10 years, the same cannot be said for Snaps, there is nothing there to guaranty that it won't just end up like: Upstart, Mir and Unity.

I can ship my software as a Docker container and have it work everywhere or I can put in a lot of work to ship a snap and have it only really work on Ubuntu, I don't even know what was Canonical thinking here. I don't care that I can install snapd on most distros, if it's not actively supported by the distro it does not count.

€3bn to rival AWS that is going to be more secure and will also only use green energy, sounds like something EU bureaucrats would come up with.

I'm deeply disappointed that the EU is afraid of doing real investments with realistic goals into information infrastructure while it happily throws away billions on the failing Ukraine war.

> Hmm, not my experience. I do TS for years now and still today I'm spending more time on fighting/pleasing TS compared to the actual code.

What are you doing exactly? I like TS, because it's one of the easiest to use type systems.

I'm also intrigued that you used C++ and think TS is bad, C++ error messages are legendary for being hard to understand.

Can I ship a badly configured Linux kernel in my distro? Yes. Is that the fault of the kernel developers? No.

I thought systemd is open source and if you don't like something about it, you can just submit a patch or even fork it or just not use it.

Replacing system components is hard and the early days are going to suck. Just because there is a lot of pain and suffering with Wayland does not mean that it was a mistake and we should have just stuck with X11.

Computing has changed since 1970, some things in our unix-like systems will also need to change to accommodate the current world and some of it is going to be painful, that's just how it is, we made fun of Vista, now it's our turn.

> industries have software that integrates with office and cannot be easily replaced, if at all.

It's just a question of money.

Having the US spy on Europeans is also very costly.

One other way to see this is that this will stop MS360 from being the "industry standard", it doesn't take that much effort nowadays to make an alternative that is good enough, we are past the days where collaborative editing is considered "cool".

People from the US tend to underestimate the EU, the EU could easily give a bit of cash to a competitor along with some juicy contracts, the US is not the only bloc that can throw millions at a problem.

Looking at the Witcher 2, 3 and CP2077, I'm highly skeptical that the engine was the problem.

I also have my doubts if they would haven been able to do the same thing better on older consoles with Unreal Engine.

Most of the worst issues with CP2077 have nothing to do with the game engine, things like the NPC AI and broken difficulty curve, the rough melee combat and hiring a shady testing company.

The one thing that could be blamed on the engine is the potentially difficult tooling for the content creators, which can easily be solved, just look at the amount of mods out there.

From the outside, this looks more like a business decision rather than a technical one, that's not to say that it could not work out for CDPR if Epic works with them very closely, however I'm very annoyed when games journalists imply that CP2077 would have been amazing at launch if they would have used Unreal.

In Cyberpunk 2077: you can go from one end of the open world to the other, without ever seeing a loading screen, you can even install a mod that allows your car to fly and you can see the whole city from the top, I haven't seen a game like that in UE5 at that level therefore there is a possibility that it would struggle with something like that if it's not designed to cope with it.

Video games use a trick called Level Of Detail, which means if something is far away, you only render a very low definition version of that object, UE5 has it as well, however we don't know if it's capable enough for something like Night City, obviously the RED engine was built with a very hardcore LOD system that might be a massive pain to do in UE5.